The cat's adopted!

natalie_ca

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That's what I told a girl I work with today when she asked about the Mommy cat of my Spencer and Katie. She hasn't been, but I sure wouldn't send home a cat with this girl. She sounds like she would be a terrible kitty mewomy!


I've been trying so hard to find a forever home for the Mommy of Spencer and Katie. I was even willing to pay the adoption fee if someone could give her a wonderful indoor home.

On the 15th, a girl who works where I do stopped by my desk when she saw me here on a Saturday. I mentioned to her about Spencer and Katie and that their Mommy needed a home too. She has been looking for a cat, so she sounded interested. I told her that I would pay the adoption if she wanted to adopt her.

I don't know this girl well, in fact until that day I only knew her to see her.

We talked for about 15 minutes and over the course of that conversation she said some things that totally turned me off of her adopting the cat.

She's had cats in the past. She relinquished 2 senior cats (they were her husbands before they got married), when they got older and started to have health issues. Rather than taking them to the vet she took them to the Humane Society.

Then they adopted a Bengal from a pet store. Paid $600.00 for it. She dumped it into an area with another cat without proper introductions. Apparently it sprayed 2 times and she referred to it as a "pissy cat" and that "pissy cats" belong outside. She took it back to the pet store where someone adopted it and was going to keep it confined to a spare room for a few days in order to do proper introductions.

She recently got divorced and when she moved out she wanted a cat. So she adopted a cat and didn't like that it didn't bury it's business in the litter box and sometimes stepped in it's poo and tracked it on it's paw. She said that she got tired of cleaning up tracked litter and poo, so she took it back to wherever she got the cat from and told them that the cat needs to be put to sleep.

I told the vet that if someone with her name stops by asking about the cat, to tell her that she's been adopted!!!

Today she stopped by my desk to tell me that she is going to The Humane Society on Wednesday because they have a sale on cats.... $25.00 for any cat over 6 months old. She then asked about the Mommy cat of my kittens. I told her that she had been adopted.

IMHO a pet deserves better than her for a forever home
 

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Wow! I hope the Humane Society asks a lot of questions. I know each Humane Society is independent so they don't have the same standard adoption application. The one where I volunteer is V-E-R-Y picky about who adopts our cats and dogs. We have list of people who are not allowed.
 

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Originally Posted by GoldyCat

Wow! I hope the Humane Society asks a lot of questions. I know each Humane Society is independent so they don't have the same standard adoption application. The one where I volunteer is V-E-R-Y picky about who adopts our cats and dogs. We have list of people who are not allowed.
Ours is really picky also, and they also have a "do not allow list." We found that out.


Back when my DS was around 2 years old we adopted a chocolate lab from them. I know that the animals' behaviors won't be completely the same as they are at the shelter, but this dog was THE MOST laid back dog I had ever seen. So calm and gentle, and they told us they were even considering sending him to live at a retirement home to give them company. We thought, GREAT, what a perfect pet!

We get him home and he is DEVIL DOG! He broke out of one of those giant dog carriers (the one made of plastic, not the metal crate ones) and completely destroyed it just from being left in there overnight while we were sleeping. He tried to bite DS multiple times, and once while we were walking him in the neighborhood he jumped up and grabbed my forearm in his mouth and slammed me onto the ground. If he can do that to a full grown human, I don't want to know what he could have possibly done to my small 2 year old son.

We called all around seeing if we could possibly get him into some obedience classes or something, we wanted to try everything we could, but everyone we talked to told us that by that age (he was 4yrs) we had little hope of retraining him. This is coming from professional dog trainers! We were worried about the safety of our son, so we took him back. I felt terrible doing it, but we just had no choice. Now, the HS won't let us adopt any other animals...not even a guinea pig...from them.
 

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That dog was nuts. When it ate its way out of the create it then proceeded to rip parts off my car that was parked in the garage and EAT them.
 
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